“It’s just coming out in a different form to potentially be more attractive, more quote unquote ‘fun’ to use because it looks potentially fun to take,” said Wang, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
Another analysis, by researchers with the Injury & Violence Prevention Center at the Colorado School of Public Health, found that in the first year of the Colorado red flag law, 85% of protection orders granted by judges had been filed by law enforcement. “A lot of that is because the law enforcement petitions may have been more complete,” said Dr. Marian Betz, an epidemiologist and deputy director of the center. “They had the information that judges needed to move forward with it.”
Dr. Kristine Erlandson, an associate professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at the University of Colorado [School of Medicine], has been doing her part by recruiting participants for a study of the long-term impact of Covid-19. The initiative is a part of the National Institutes of Health's RECOVER trial.
In many ways, it's a lot like the experiences of families of patients in the intensive care unit with Covid-19, said Dr. Timothy Amass, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
"There's this misconception that cannabis is safe," said study author Brianna Moore, an assistant professor at the Colorado School of Public Health in Aurora, Colorado. "So some women may use it in pregnancy, thinking that it's a safe alternative to other medicines, even prescribed medications," Moore said.
Often, though, that's where the system falls short, according to Dr. Paula Riggs, a professor and director of the Division of Addiction Science, Prevention and Treatment in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. "Less than 10% of kids go to treatment with the standard screening, brief intervention, referral to treatment model that we're using," said Riggs, who wasn't involved in the new study.
Dr. Sean O'Leary, a professor of pediatric infectious disease at the University of Colorado School of Medicine who works with Children's Hospital Colorado, said his fellow pediatricians are starting to hear from more parents, "particularly for the older kids who were vaccinated several months ago."
Opinion co-authored by Sean T. O'Leary, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado and serves as the vice chair of the Committee on Infectious Diseases for the American Academy of Pediatric
